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So, between the ages of about 9 and 17, I blew lots of both my and my parents' money on GW stuff. In an amusing cycle, the GW figures I'd bought with money from selling Transformers got sold off to buy more Transformers, but I still have enough Dark Angels Space Marines to field a few thousand points worth of army. I've been stripping off and repainting old models, bought a few new ones, and I'm wondering what to do army-wise, since I've not played since Second Edition. Here's what I have available, roughly;

50-odd assorted Tactical Marines

5 Jump Pack Assault Marines

5 Devastators; Lascannon X2, Heavy Plasma Gun, 2X Heavy Bolter.

5 Terminators; Mixed weapons, includes one Thunder Hammer/Storm Shield, Cyclone Missile Launcher.

10 Terminators; 2 lots of the Assault on Black Reach guys.

5 Scouts, all with bolt pistols/swords.

All the special character models, plus enough command characters to field anything one could pick from the current codex, I think.

Dreadnought, missing arms, so I can scratchbuild anything to suit.

Dreadnought, old scratchbuild project, same weapons situation as above.

Predator Annihilator, Heavy Bolter sponsons.

Predator, Heavy Bolter sponsons.

Razorback, unbuilt, so either weapons set.

Rhino

4X Bike

1X Attack Bike

Old Ravenwing Landspeeder (assault cannon/heavy bolter)

So, working with that, what sort of workable 5E Army (or 4E Dark Angels Codex army) could I make? Assume I can arm the Tac and Assault marines with any weapons, parts-wise, because I have a lot of bits lurking about. In exchange, everyone gets to laugh at my attempts at repainting and repairing 15-year-old models in the painting forum once I have an idea of what I shoult start painting to have a game-able army again

Most of the solid DA list have a heavy core of troops that I have seen. The next step would be to fill in some odds and ends with tanks as needed. I would also look at fielding your bikes for flank attacks with melta guns, multi melta.

HQ

Cheap hq

Elites

Maybe a termi unit, one or two hammers followed with an assault cannon, claws

Troops

3x tactical at 1500 but I would bring at least 4x units

Fast attack

Bikes plus attack bike

Heavy support

Depending on your points and if you are fielding rhinos in your troops section. As this will give options for the enemy to kill.